Pulling from the pool to finance business endeavors has been frowned upon since very early on.
Steemsports comes to mind.
I was making more voting steemsports than I was posting.
If you voted the winning team you got to split the liquid rewards from the comment.

I guess I missed the playdice dustup, but I would've pointed to steemsports as an example.
The pool is for enticing newbs, not financing a gambling habit, imo.
Being a blogger, and not much of a gambler, I might be biased.

I don't like curie and the other gangs financing payoffs for their members from the pool, either.
Those payoffs come at the expense of the redfish on the long tail, the very people we are trying to attract.
It's counterintuitive, I know.
Everybody wants a whale vote, nobody understands that that value comes from everybody else.

When whales, or curation gangs, vote, [everybody else gets less](https://peakd.com/utopian-io/@paulag/the-impact-of-unused-steempower-on-the-rewards-pool-blockchain-business-intelligence).